Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-02-06

| MIS-. NUllAm ID. DOWu, u very h"uu
some young lady, was attired in SUI
perbly-fitting costume of cloth and
| plush, with large hat Other guests
were: Mrs. Charles III. Fellows, Mrs.
Commander Wiltee, Mrs. J. Buchanan
Houston, Mrs. J ION Harvier, Mrs.
Fred HurIbert. Mss Wickham, Mrs.
Henry T. Wallace, and Mrs. Isabel
Mallon.
The draNing-room was handsomely
decorated with flowers, and the ladies
present were all in the best of spirits.
| The guests remained at table from 300
until o'clock.
THE HIDDEN SIDE or FAST LiFE.
A LOT of bottles seen on window-sill
| in the brownstone district before noon
is getting to be n recognized sign Of
| the residence of "a man about town.
| To be man about town, or good fell
low, or rounder," as the profession
is yariously called, is quite "A science.
Whether il is because we are not so
strong as men used to be in the days
when to be n man was to be either
fighter or n laborer, or whether what
we drink is more adulterated than it
used to be, "a man has to be something
| of doctor to drink his share i'll
the frivolous world of to-day. The
FOUNDERS, or men about town, i'll
this city very quickly begin to
study the all-important question how
10 drink and yet live to drink more,
Just rs soldier learns TO fire and iall
back, so as to be ready to fire again.
This is not picturesque or encouraging,
but ii is one of the signs of the times.
1t won't do to mention names, although
they would be very interesting, but the
methods of few notable drinkers are
odd enough to jot down. A certain
great Republican always ends night
with Lithia water and flies TO it again
the next day. One of the greatest
FOUNDERS" i'll club circles, a man who
takes wine by the quart and beer by the
gallon, always drinks pint of water
heavily mixed with bi-carbonate of soda
on retiring, and another pint in the
| morning. Hosts of men habitually take
half teaspoonful of soda in glass Of
water after night of good-fellowship
The heaviest drinker among New York
brewers always tops off a nights cargo
of beer with glass or two of gin, and
says that it saves his life. Many more
humble Germans finish with imported
settler.
The correct thing with dudes who
can afford a valet is to wear down next
mornings head with a "bout with the
gloves, followed by a cold plunge and
a vigorous rubbing with harsh towels.
A punch-bag TO bang away atanda cold
plunge are the substitutes used by
Others who have no valet, while yet
others take copious draughts of almost
boiling water. All our professional
men about town find it necessary to re-
sort to Russian baths once or two,
week.
GREAT DRINKER
All these things are done to restore
their enfeebled systems and to PRODUCT
an appearance the next morning, after
a dinner or spree, that will justify the
assertion all drinking-men like %
make-tha they never feel the effects
OF what they drink Mt all. 1t wouldn't
do to appear looking seedy. ltwould
he reflection ON u FOUNDERS manhood.
But it is amazing how fresh these me-
thods nearly all make these oversociable
mena ppear-that is, until the day comes
when they break down altogether and
become either wrecks ordead men. One
of the hardest drinkers i'll the city is the
"out-of-doors-man" of great cham
pagne house ruddy, corpulent young
Frenchman, whom you frequently leave
at daybreak " setting up" the thirtieth
or fiftieth bottle in bar-room, and see
next afternoon springing along Broad
way like gaelic He tells me that he
has found that the best curative for bad
habits is plenty of sleep, and so he never
allows himself to be wakened, but sleeps
until he is cured, even if it takes twelve
or fourteen hours. But whatever the
process may be, one must have some
curative in order to be rOunder in
these rapid days, or else the fastest
thing about new-beginner's expert
ence will be the rnpidity with which he
will get into the hospital or the grave.
MORE ABOUT THE TERRY CASE.
Although Mrs Terry has been in New
York four weeks, and is now fully re-
stored to health, she has scarcely been
seen by any one except her counsel and
a very few intimate friends. She has
rarely left the seven-room apartment
which she occupies with baby Juanita
Teresita, the heiress to Sc, 100000 She
is impatiently awaiting the trial of her
libel suit against the World.
On the part Of the World it is said
10y authority that the statements of IA
disposition to retract or to apologize for
its publication are altogether unbound
ed. No such proposition has been
made on the part of the World. Mr..
Pulitzer did offer the columns of his
paper to any statement Mrs. Terry
might wish to make, but this was all.
The statement that he or any repre-
sentative IN any way intimated, where
service in the suit was sought to be
made, that he was only the head
Of syndicate in the publication
of the World is also declared
to be totally unfounded. The H'orid's
answer in the case will soon be- ready,
and the suit promises lively develop
ments. The damages asked are the
largest ever sued for in any libel case,
excepting, perhaps, in that of Senator
Mcpherson against the Hcratd.
Antonio Terry, Mrs. Terry's brother
in-law, is stopping at the Coleman
House Just now He is hot-tempered,
and has threatened to shoot the first
reporter who asks him any questions.
A NOTABLE FIRST NIGHT.
A tin lighthouse, twelve or fifteen
feet high, is perched on the roof of
Wallack's Theatre. Electric lights shine
from the tower, and it attracts the at
tention of the passers-by and advertises
Harbor Lights. The production of
the play was notable. A fashionable
audience assembled, and the scenic eff
fec was superb. II isn't much of
play, but that never seems to make
any particular difference at Wallack's.
After the first act the audience fell to
gossipping carrulously.
81 see that Wallack has light
honse on the roof, said a man in front
OF me to his neighbor.
"Yaas," drawled the other, a noted